Röyksopp - It’s What I Want
August 12, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Steven Haulenbeek’s stunning Cumulus Light Canopy
"There were a few national differences among the men: the German men were most reticent about going out or going home with any of the imagined women, and Italians were least discriminate about doing anything with anyone. American men were more likely than their German counterparts to go to bed with a woman. But they weren’t quite as randy as the Italians."
— LATimes summarizes a study by Human Nature: Women take very attractive strangers to bed; men not so picky
The Hunyad Castle in Hunedoara, Romania is believed to be the place where Vlad III of Wallachia (commonly known as Dracula) was held prisoner for 7 years after he was deposed in 1462.
Good Samaritanism in Berlin: an underground phenomenon?
The U-bahn has been endlessly fascinating lately. While my train was paused at Strausberger Platz, this rather innocuous, bespectacled man walked alongside all the windows of my train car with an paper sign reading “Ausgang” [in English: exit] with an arrow. Even more confusing was that some people appeared to dart off the train. While I was sitting there worrying about terror plots, others on the train were pulling out their tickets to be checked by a sketchy-looking man wearing a fannypack. I *think* Ausgang man was warning passengers that the reviled ticket checkers were entering the train! Brilliant. Hope this recession-conscious trend continues.
August 11, 2009
A picture I took at dusk on my first day in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I can’t stop listening to Bat For Lashes - Use Somebody (Kings of Leon cover)
August 9, 2009
Guardian // Insatiable Creatures
“Our reactions to other people’s excesses reveals to us what our conflicts are. I don’t want to be a suicide bomber, but I may want to have something in my life that is so important to me that I would risk my life for it….The excesses of other people….can make us think, rather than merely react.”
Dustin Humphey’s amazing watery photographs for surf label Insight. Winner of the Sony World Photography Awards Cannes 2009 Commercial - Advertising.
August 6, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Metronomy - A Thing For Me (Mad Decent remix)
August 3, 2009
"Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine on my table and 10 bunches of flowers, some new clothes, a chauffeur on 24-hour call. Now I’m lucky to get an Oyster card."
August 2, 2009
August 1, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Weezer - Holiday
July 30, 2009
I’ve escaped to the magical walled city of Dubrovnik for five days; see you later reality!
